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Urban Airship, in Portland, San Francisco, and remote. We're building the platforms required for communicating with and understanding a mobile audience, and we work with some of th…

Same restrictions on normal unemployment apply in Oregon. The SEAP is unemployment, and requires that you be on regular unemployment first. The differences are that you're specific…

Not in Lion - by default holding down a key will bring up the accent menu. You can turn it off by following this http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/04/enable-key-repeat-mac-os-x-li... (th…

You can be doing what you love and still have a crappy job with low pay and no hours.

I think the difference here is that I'm already on my phone or iPad looking at the item in the first place. It's a pleasant experience for me to look up things that I might like, o…

I'm honestly curious, why is that a problem?

Check out the OPEN act. Ars links to their writeup in the article: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/12/censorship-f... It moves the focus on handling these things away …

I'm using it right now, as is a friend I recommended it to a few minutes ago, thanks to this post.

I'm one of the founders mentioned, and others are here as well - please don't hesitate to ask any questions about the program.

Portland venture capital is picking up (and we've been lucky to be a part of that). An important note is that most of the money isn't coming from Portland and it's not coming in sm…

There are local tech events happening pretty much every night of the week. http://calagator.org/ has a good listing. It's to the point where you can't pick a night to do a user gro…

Urban Airship in Portland, Oregon. http://urbanairship.com/jobs

Not in our tests, and nobody in our beta test period had any comments. The logic around controlling the connection is pretty intelligent in what it does. A connection that's open i…

Thanks! That means a lot to us :D

Sure thing. For in-app content delivered through our infrastructure, whether it's free or paid through Apple's in-app purchase, we charge $0.05/download. An API call is made to our…

Our core product is a suite of features to make it easier for mobile publishers to add advanced mobile features. If it becomes clear at some point that we need to only use C2DM (Go…

Hi, Thanks for the questions! The AirMail Control Panel manages a persistent TCP socket connection to our infrastructure using custom keepalives. Our pings aren't adapted to networ…

We've been doing this for over a year. We're extremely familiar with all of the quirks of the process around push notifications and, during that time, have listened to what our cus…

There a couple Urban Airship cofounders that read HN, myself included - please don't hesitate to ask us any questions. This has been a really, really fun project with some very int…